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TVLSI
2008
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Leakage Minimization of SRAM Cells in a Dual-Vt and Dual-Tox Technology
-- Aggressive CMOS scaling results in low threshold voltage and thin oxide thickness for transistors manufactured in deep submicron regime. As a result, reducing the subthreshold a...
Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, Massoud Pedram
TVLSI
2008
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A Robust 4-PAM Signaling Scheme for Inter-Chip Links Using Coding in Space
Abstract--Increasing demand for high-speed inter-chip interconnects requires faster links that consume less power. Channel coding can be used to lower the required signal-to-noise ...
Kamran Farzan, David A. Johns
TVLSI
2008
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Energy-Aware Flash Memory Management in Virtual Memory System
The traditional virtual memory system is designed for decades assuming a magnetic disk as the secondary storage. Recently, flash memory becomes a popular storage alternative for ma...
Han-Lin Li, Chia-Lin Yang, Hung-Wei Tseng
TVLSI
2008
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Test Data Compression Using Selective Encoding of Scan Slices
We present a selective encoding method that reduces test data volume and test application time for scan testing of Intellectual Property (IP) cores. This method encodes the slices ...
Zhanglei Wang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty
TVLSI
2008
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A Fuzzy Optimization Approach for Variation Aware Power Minimization During Gate Sizing
Abstract--Technology scaling in the nanometer era has increased the transistor's susceptibility to process variations. The effects of such variations are having a huge impact ...
Venkataraman Mahalingam, N. Ranganathan, J. E. Har...
TVLSI
2008
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Scalable QoS-Aware Memory Controller for High-Bandwidth Packet Memory
This paper proposes a high-performance scalable quality-of-service (QoS)-aware memory controller for the packet memory where packet data are stored in network routers. A major chal...
Hyuk-Jun Lee, Eui-Young Chung
TVLSI
2008
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GlitchLess: Dynamic Power Minimization in FPGAs Through Edge Alignment and Glitch Filtering
This paper describes Glitchless, a circuit-level technique for reducing power in FPGAs by eliminating unnecessary logic transitions called glitches. This is done by adding program...
Julien Lamoureux, Guy G. Lemieux, Steven J. E. Wil...
TVLSI
2008
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Unified Convolutional/Turbo Decoder Design Using Tile-Based Timing Analysis of VA/MAP Kernel
To satisfy the advanced forward-error-correction (FEC) standards, in which the Convolutional code and Turbo code may co-exit, a prototype design of a unified Convolutional/Turbo de...
Fan-Min Li, Cheng-Hung Lin, An-Yeu Wu
TVLSI
2008
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Guest Editorial Special Section on Design Verification and Validation
ion levels. The framework also supports the generation of test constraints, which can be satisfied using a constraint solver to generate tests. A compositional verification approac...
I. Harris, D. Pradhan